Ernest Eastman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetErnest Eastman
Liberian politician
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Place of Birth: Monrovia, Montserrado County, Liberia
About Ernest Eastman
- Theophilus Ernest Eastman (normally written as T.
- Ernest or Ernest) (March 27, 1927 – February 28, 2011) was a politician in Liberia.
- While holding office as Under Secretary of State during the Tubman administration, he pressured President Tubman to begin his extensive involvement in Pan-African politics.
- From 1983 to 1986, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs under dictator Samuel Doe, succeeding Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh and preceding John Bernard Blamo.
- President Charles Ghankay Taylor later appointed him to be the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs before returning him to the Foreign Ministry.
- He represented the National Patriotic Party at ECOWAS-sponsored peace talks in Banjul.After graduating from the College of West Africa in 1947, Eastman went to the United States, where he graduated from Oberlin College and Columbia University.
- He was married three times: first to Erelia Eastman, a fellow Columbia student; second to Danielette Norman, a Liberian; and third to Salma Mohammed Ali of Kenya.
- A lifelong Methodist, he served for a time as one of the trustees of the First United Methodist Church of Monrovia.
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